Chief Seattle's 1854 Address to President Franklin Pierce
Try and live up to the fallowing Chief Seattle, chief of the Suquamish and other Salish tribes of the Pacific Northwest,expressed these ideas most eloquently in his 1854 address to
President Franklin Pierce: "...
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself... One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover: Our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is precious to Him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste..."
Informant: Martin
President Franklin Pierce: "...
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself... One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover: Our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is precious to Him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste..."
Informant: Martin
Starmail - 21. Dez, 16:38
